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Kick-off to Summer Picnic 2025

Kick off the summer season and celebrate the end of another school year! Grab a blanket and some sunscreen and meet us on the front lawn of the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry for this free event featuring music at the family stage, games and hands-on activities from incredible community partners. C2ST is bring stomp rockets, and there will be dozens of community organizations on site with games, swag, food, and so much more. If your summer calendar isn’t full already, it will be by the time you leave!

This outdoor event is free and open to the public. Admission to the Museum requires a ticket purchase. Ticketed Museum guests on this date can exit to access the picnic and re-enter to continue exploring.

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Hobbits & Hops: The Origin of Homo Floresiensis

Do you want to know why Homo Floresiensis are nicknamed the “real life Hobbits”? Find out and ask your own questions at our Speakeasy on June 1st!

Join the Chicago Council on Science and Technology, the Leakey Foundation, the Field Museum and Professor Adam Brumm for an evening of networking, socializing, and science!

Featuring a talk by Adam Brumm, professor of archaeology and founding member of the Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution at Griffith University. Doors at Revolution Brewing + Taproom will open at 2:00 with the talk kicking off at 2:30. Food and drink will be available for purchase.

Registration is not required but is appreciated.

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The Power of Primary Care Physicians: A Discussion on Advocacy with Dr. Scott-Wellington

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By Rowan Dunbar, C2ST Intern, University of Illinois Chicago

With reports projecting a shortage of over eighty-seven thousand full-time primary care physicians (PCPs) by 2037, there has never been a better time to highlight the importance of primary care. Research has shown that patients with better access to primary care live longer, healthier lives. To learn more about the critical roles PCPs play in people’s health, specifically adolescents, I spoke with Dr. Felicia Scott-Wellington, a proud Chicagoan, adolescent medicine physician, and advocate for her patients. We discussed her path to adolescent medicine, why this field is unique, and how marginalization impacts her patients. 

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First Stories: The Ice Age Art of Sulawesi

The Chicago Council on Science and Technology, the Leakey Foundation, and the Field Museum present a lecture with Adam Brumm, professor of archaeology and founding member of the Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution at Griffith University.

In the 1950s, the discovery of prehistoric rock art was reported for the first time on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. These images were found in limestone caves in the karst hills of Maros-Pangkep. At the time, it was believed this art had been left by early Neolithic farmers, making them about 4,000 years old. However, in 2014, an Australian-Indonesian team dated the Maros-Pangkep art for the first time using a uranium-series analysis of natural mineral coatings that had formed on some of the images. The earliest dated image yielded a minimum age of 40,000 years, making it compatible with cave art in Spain, the oldest known art in the world at the time. The Sulawesi art therefore challenged the long-accepted story that the birthplace of human art and culture had been in Europe. The earliest painting, with a minimum age of 51, 200 years, is a scene portraying human-like figures interacting with a pig. It is the oldest cave art attributed to humans and the earliest known examples of visual storytelling in the world, providing crucial insights into the development of human cognition.